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Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, October 18). Narrating the intellectual labor of the new work of scholarship. Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.
abstract Each presenter (Ball with Andrea Lunsford, Jonathan Alexander, Scott DeWitt, Charles Kostelnick, Bump Halbritter, & Cynthia Selfe) had 10 minutes to “pitch” their concepts for what constitutes the ‘new work’ of composing. As this was the last plenary session of the conference, Ball served to sum up the other plenary sessions into major threads, focusing on how each previous presenter addressed (explicitly or implicitly) the intellectual labor of digital scholarship.
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, November 10). Scholarship, art, or fun?!: Interdisciplinary perspectives on digital publications. Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, OH.
abstract In this presentation, I discuss the contexts and definitions of digital scholarship, and ask the audience about their assumptions of such work. Then, using a sample scholarly webtext, ask the audience to help evaluate it.
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2009, April 2). Doing your own P.R.: Developing online faculty and staff portfolios to disseminate teaching, research, and service activity. The University of Findlay, Findlay, OH.
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Cheryl E. Ball will discuss the changing landscape of scholarship in the digital humanities, including examining types of digital scholarship that will change the way tenure and promotion reviews happen at universities. As part of this discussion, particular attention will be given to disseminating one’s teaching, research/creative activities, and service through an electronic portfolio.
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Ball, Cheryl E.; Gossett, Kathie; Kalmbach, Jim; Losh, Liz; Lunsford, Karen; Reed, Scott; & Salvo, Michael. (2009, June 21). Town hall: Ubiquitous and sustainable computing: @ School @ Work @ Play. Computers & Writing, University of California–Davis.
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A roundtable discussion from leaders in the field of digital writing studies about how our work and play can be both ubiquitous and sustainable. My focus was on issues in publishing digital scholarship.
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2009, October 13). The aesthetics of editing digital media scholarship: A look at Kairos. Online Research Mediation & the Arts Seminar. Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.
abstract I will present a short history and overview of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, which has been publishing digital media texts since 1996. I will discuss how Kairos editors, board members, and authors negotiate the journal’s ever-changing boundaries between ‘typical’ print and ‘typical’ digital scholarship (in digital writing studies) as exemplified in the complicated relationship between aesthetics and rhetorics in a recent set of creative submissions, with an in-depth look at one submission in particular.
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Ball, Cheryl E., & Blair, Kristine. (2009, October 23). Publishing 2.0: New rules for new scholars. English Department, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM.
abstract In a shared speaker-series lecture, Ball & Blair discuss the state of digital scholarship, roles of peer-review and mentoring, issues in assessing and evaluating digital scholarship for tenure and promotion purposes, and ways to gain professional development through digital media for rising, junior, and senior scholars in English studies. After the talk, Ball & Blair met individually with graduate students for a two-hour Q&A session.
description A one-hour documentary film that interviews 22 rhetoric and composition specialists about the top issues in writing studies and the teaching of writing. This resource is freely available as a professional development resource through Bedford-St. Martin’s Press.
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McCorkle, Ben [Producer]. (2007, June 5). Visiting scholars in digital media: Cheryl Ball [Video]. Ohio State University. http://tinyurl.com/dmac-interview-ball
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Short interview (12:29) with Cheryl Ball (Illinois State University), part of the ongoing series featuring Visiting Scholars in Digital Media and Composition at the OSU Department of English. Outline: I. On a digital tenure portfolio. II. Defining the terms in digital writing studies. III. Explaining this work to students. IV. Why I attend the DMAC institute. V. Advice for new multimedia teacher-scholars.
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Interviewed by Genevieve Critel. (2008, February). Documenting the process of building a digital tenure binder [Video]. Intro to Digital Media [course assignment]. Ohio State University.
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This hour-long video, in which I was interviewed by Genevieve Critel for her Intro to Digital Media graduate class at OSU, discusses how and why I am preparing a digital tenure portfolio.
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by Doug Dangler. (2008, February). Digital media and digital scholarship [Podcast]. Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing: Ohio State University. http://cstw.osu.edu/podcasts/mp3/ball.mp3
description A 60-minute audio podcast interview by Doug Dangler (Associate Director for the Center of the Study of Teaching and Writing at OSU) about my work with digital media scholarship.
Screenshot from Inside Higher Education article where I am quoted
Interviewed for a news article about the Pew Internet and American Life report on “Writing, Technology, and Teens,” which includes statistics of student/teen use of social networking and texting as part of their writing lives.
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Interviewed by Fred Kemp & Rich Rice. (2008, September 5). What is multimodal composition? [Podcast]. Smarttcast. http://www.smarttcast.com/cheryl_ball.m4a
description This 60-minute audio interview, hosted by Drs. Fred Kemp and Rich Rice of Texas Tech University, contains a Q&A about multimodal composition.
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Interviewed by renowned graphic designer and teacher, Ellen Lupton, on the role of design in first-year writing classes. Voice is the online newsletter of the professional association for design.
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, May 23). New media scholarship: Taxonomies, heuristics, and strategies to connect authors, editors, departments, and tenure committees. Computers and Writing, Athens, GA.
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In this presentation, I draw on Allison Warner’s (2007) heuristic for assessing the scholarly value of traditional webtexts that fall between print-like and multimedia-rich, digital scholarship. Warner intentionally leaves room for other scholars to explore the ways that such a heuristic might be applicable (or flexible) for texts that incorporate multimedia elements, such as new media scholarship. The purpose of this presentation is to posit additional heuristics — and the complications of adding more heuristics — for emerging new media scholarly conventions that can be of use to tenure and promotion stakeholders.
